diff --git a/R/qr_vcard.R b/R/qr_vcard.R
index b83a49c..07be287 100644
--- a/R/qr_vcard.R
+++ b/R/qr_vcard.R
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #' @param middle Optionally one or more middle names.
 #' @param prefix Optionally one or more prefixes.
 #' @param suffix Optionally one or more suffixes.
+#' @param version The vCard version. Must be one of "4.0", "3.0" or "2.1".
 #' @inheritParams qr_code
 #' @param ... Additional arguments are silently ignored.
 #' @export
@@ -29,13 +30,15 @@
 qr_vcard <- function(
   given, family, address, email, telephone, organisation, job_title, url,
   gender, logo, photo, middle = character(0), prefix = character(0),
-  suffix = character(0), ecl = c("L", "M", "Q", "H"), ...
+  suffix = character(0), version = c("4.0", "3.0", "2.1"),
+  ecl = c("L", "M", "Q", "H"), ...
 ) {
   assert_that(
     is.string(given), is.string(family), noNA(given), noNA(family),
     is.character(middle), is.character(prefix), is.character(suffix),
     noNA(middle), noNA(prefix), noNA(suffix)
   )
+  version <- match.arg(version)
   ecl <- match.arg(ecl)
   given <- vcard_escape(given)
   family <- vcard_escape(family)
@@ -43,7 +46,7 @@ qr_vcard <- function(
   prefix <- vcard_escape(prefix)
   suffix <- vcard_escape(suffix)
   c(
-    "BEGIN:VCARD", "VERSION:4.0",
+    "BEGIN:VCARD", sprintf("VERSION:%s", version),
     vcard_fname(
       given = given, family = family, middle = middle, prefix = prefix,
       suffix = suffix
@@ -57,8 +60,8 @@ qr_vcard <- function(
     vcard_multi(x = organisation, element = "ORG"),
     vcard_multi(x = job_title, element = "TITLE"),
     vcard_multi_type(x = url, element = "URL"),
-    vcard_multi_type(x = logo, element = "LOGO"),
-    vcard_multi_type(x = photo, element = "PHOTO"),
+    vcard_media(x = logo, element = "LOGO"),
+    vcard_media(x = photo, element = "PHOTO"),
     vcard_single(x = gender, element = "GENDER"), "END:VCARD"
   ) |>
     vapply(vcard_wrap, character(1), width = 75) |>
@@ -192,6 +195,31 @@ vcard_multi_type <- function(x, element) {
     )
 }
 
+#' @importFrom assertthat assert_that is.string noNA
+vcard_media <- function(x, element = c("LOGO", "PHOTO")) {
+  if (missing(x)) {
+    return(character(0))
+  }
+  assert_that(check_url(x))
+  element <- match.arg(element)
+  if (is.null(names(x))) {
+    names(x) <- NA
+  }
+  vcard_escape(x) |>
+    sprintf(fmt = "%1$s;%2$s", element)
+}
+
+#' @importFrom assertthat assert_that noNA
+check_url <- function(x) {
+  assert_that(is.character(x), noNA(x))
+  paste0(
+    "https?:\\/\\/(www\\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\\+~#=]{1,256}",
+    "\\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\\+.~#?&//=]*)"
+  ) |>
+    grepl(pattern = _, x = x, perl = TRUE) -> checked
+  all(checked)
+}
+
 #' @importFrom assertthat assert_that is.string noNA
 vcard_single <- function(x, element) {
   if (missing(x)) {
diff --git a/man/qr_vcard.Rd b/man/qr_vcard.Rd
index d5b72df..6c8ff05 100644
--- a/man/qr_vcard.Rd
+++ b/man/qr_vcard.Rd
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ qr_vcard(
   middle = character(0),
   prefix = character(0),
   suffix = character(0),
+  version = c("4.0", "3.0", "2.1"),
   ecl = c("L", "M", "Q", "H"),
   ...
 )
@@ -61,6 +62,8 @@ The names of the vector are used as the type of the URL.}
 
 \item{suffix}{Optionally one or more suffixes.}
 
+\item{version}{The vCard version. Must be one of "4.0", "3.0" or "2.1".}
+
 \item{ecl}{the required error correction level.
 Available options are \code{"L"} (7\%), \code{"M"} (15\%), \code{"Q"} (25\%) and \code{"H"} (30\%).
 Defaults to \code{"L"}.}
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_e_qr_vcard.R b/tests/testthat/test_e_qr_vcard.R
index 641e78d..90ff273 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_e_qr_vcard.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_e_qr_vcard.R
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ test_that("qr_vcard()", {
       address = list(
         work = c(
           street_nr = "123 Main St.", city = "Anytown", region = "NY",
-          postal_code = "12345", country = "USA", pobox = "PO Box 123"
+          postal_code = "12345", country = "USA"
         ),
         home = c(
           street_nr = "321 Main St.", city = "Anytown", region = "NY",
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_f_opencv.R b/tests/testthat/test_f_opencv.R
index 54b8f0f..ab22217 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_f_opencv.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_f_opencv.R
@@ -25,4 +25,9 @@ test_that("test generated codes", {
   Encoding(input) <- "latin1"
   test_read_qr(input)
   test_read_qr("\u00E6")
+
+  sharp_s <- "stra\u00DFe" #UTF-8 encoding
+  test_read_qr(sharp_s)
+  Encoding(sharp_s) <- "latin1" #latin1 encoding
+  test_read_qr(sharp_s)
 })